Our film develops and challenges forms and conventions of a typical 'western' film. Typical forms and conventions of a western is firstly the mis-en-scene. Things such as buildings tend to look old/dusty etc. 
We decided to support this, so that as soon as you start watching out film introduction you instantly know what genre it is. To do this we used old, rusty metal chairs with wooden furniture which was also very dusty. All the furniture looked as if it had been not used a lot, which could suggest that this room could be rarely used and in our case it isn't as it is used for a hideout by the 'angry men' for where they keep their stash of money.
Another important form and convention of a western film is the chase scene, which normally is on horse back. But we decided to develop this and had the chase scene on foot as we felt this might add more pace and tension to the scene. But as we didn't totally want to ignore a very important part of a western, the horse, as we felt that a western without horses would almost not seen like it matched the name of the genre. So we used it later on in the film in an escape scene.
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